Wednesday, April 11, 2007

And the world is thus flattened...

What Kierkegaad envisaged as a consequence of the press's indiscriminate and uncommitted coverage is now fully realized on the World Wide Web. Thanks to hyperlinks, meaningful differences have, indeed, been levelled. Relevance and significance have disappeared. And this is an important part of the attraction of the web. Nothing is too trivial to be included. Nothing is so important that it demands a special place.

(Hubert Dreyfus, On the Internet, 79)